[mat-wg] Portolan/Desktop

Dear Colleague, 
The University of Pisa and IIT, an Institute of the Italian National
Research Council, have designed and developed a crowdsourcing-based system,
named PORTOLAN, which initially employed smartphones as mobile monitors
probing the Internet. The aim of PORTOLAN is to enhance the current topology
of the Internet at the Autonomous System level of abstraction - all with the
contribution of volunteers. Find out more on our website
(http://portolan.iet.unipi.it).

Portolan was initially deployed in 2012 and since then it has been available
on smartphone clients running Android. In order to increase the number of
users, Portolan IS NOW available for desktop operating systems Linux,
Windows and OS X. In this way we hope to obtain a more precise Internet
structure with respect to the one now available.

PORTOLAN works in the background, it is designed not to interfere in any way
with users' activities and does not affect the smartphone/desktop's overall
performance. In order to motivate users to contribute to the PORTOLAN
project, we have added several services, which include diagnostic network
tools (such as Ping, Paris Traceroute with Multipath Detection Algorithm,
Maximum Throughput achievable along a path, etc.) and coverage measurement
tools (available on smartphones only). All the tools are totally under the
user's control. Data collected by these tools are stored in our server
located in Pisa, in a completely anonymous way. 

The PORTOLAN component that runs on Android smartphones can be downloaded by
users from Google play
(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.unipi.iet.portolan.tracero
ute).

The PORTOLAN component  for desktop, available for Windows 7/8, Linux and OS
X, can be downloaded at our website  http://portolan.iet.unipi.it/download.

The success of Portolan depends upon the number of users who join the
experiment. Feel free to share this message with your colleagues students
and friends!.

Many thanks in advance for your cooperation.

All the best,
Luciano
On behalf of the Portolan Development Team
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Prof. Luciano Lenzini
Associate Researcher 
IIT/CNR
lenzini44 at gmail.com

Former
Full Professor
Department of Information Engineering
School of Engineering
University of Pisa, Italy
http://www.iet.unipi.it/~lenzini 

and
Research Director
CNUCE/CNR

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